CHAPTER I 



EARLY TRAINING VS. NATURAL INCLINATION 



My father was in the tobacco business. When 

 I was born he began to make plans for me, his 

 first son, to follow in his footsteps, and had vis- 

 ions of an immense project in his line which was 

 eventually to make me the tobacco king of the 

 universe. 



What I know about psychology is but little; 

 however, I believe his plans were knocked into a 

 cocked hat at the very 

 moment when he allowed 

 my first Santa Claus to 

 bring me for my first 

 Christmas on earth a 

 stuffed specimen of the 

 equine species. 



As I have already re- 

 marked, my knowledge 

 of psychology is very 

 limited, but I do believe 

 that, with the plans he 

 made for me when I 

 made my appearance in 

 his family, he should 

 have picked old Santa's stock over a little more 

 carefully, and his first order for me should have 

 been a wooden Indian. 



While I lived with my father eighteen years, 

 our home was on the western limits of the city of 

 Milwaukee. A few blocks from our home lived an 



I early showed a predilection 

 for horses 



